Rick Boucher: “I also want to commend you for organizing what I think is a very timely hearing on the reauthorization of the Satellite…”

I believed then as I believe today that assuring an open Internet is essential to maintaining the Web as a vibrant medium for free expression, for commerce, for education, for healthcare delivery.

I think very simply because both sides now have quite a bit of leverage, and when both sides have leverage roughly equal, and I think that is the situation today, it is the optimal circumstance for legislating.

I think the fact that Republicans have moved as far toward the Democratic position as they have is really a major development.

I think it moves in the right direction, and I think it is important to note how far the Republicans have now moved toward the historic Democratic position.